1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45,
A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,
His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,
1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4,
So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s,
Not seen to blaze
With dreadful majesty aglare,
And vengeance sleeps, mankind
Pursues its darling joys, and mocks
The pow’r divine […]